Every rainbow is double. Even those you can create with your pressure washer at sunny day.
Participating in TTIP barely align with participating in experiments that could lead to nuclear disaster. Noticeable part of Hungarian export is food, which will be hard to sell with heightened radiation level.
Why wouldn't you think they found exactly what they were looking for, then left?
I suppose, that if they had found, they would have used it in propaganda. Like biolabs and other stuff.
Of course, there is a probability that they found something that nobody should know about, but in that case I don't think it was nuclear weapons. It should be something much worse, but I have no idea what it could be.
Do you really think they had nothing better to do than to expend military resources during the first incursion seizing a rusty, mildly radioactive tourist attraction?
They have a question and there was the only way to find out.
Make no mistake, the war is to destroy Russia
Hardly. The scale have to be magnitude orders larger.
Who predicted the SMO? No one.
US government. Because they perfectly know that if they order to attack DPR/LPR, than Russia will have to invade.
At least that is how it looks like. There is a huge possibility that it is all staged, because Putin is 100% NWO puppet, and participation in coronahoax proves it undoubtedly.
As for nuclear weapons, I also recalled that at the beginning Russian troops also got Chernobyl territory, but later leave. Like they search something there and found nothing.
Really, Ukraine have no ability to produce nuclear weapons. They destroyed all soviet facilites and labs that could possibly do it. Even with import of western specialists they just have no place where they can do it. The best thing they could do is a dirty bomb.
There is also another theory about ZNPP mess around - West need any nuclear accident in that area to cover up wishful use of shells with depleted uranium against Russia/DPR/LPR.
Also, just for information. Ukrainian military have no weapons that could somehow harm power plant itself. Soviet nuclear power plants protection calculated to fully protect against kamikadze attack of heavy plane with ammunition. The only vulnerable thing is barns with used and failed rods. But even if a largest shell blow up in storage, than only few square kilometers will be contaminated, because there will be no any noticeable amount of lightweight radioactive dust or vapours. Rod is a tough metal thing, of course, you could blow it, but all you will get is rather large radioactive pieces, that will not fly far.
All known serious nuclear disasters on NPP occured when reactor run out of limits, not because of external impact.
Orbán is easy to bribe
May be he have some red lines? And he have no insane desire to absolutely get rid of anything Russian at any cost like Ukrainian politicians.
they wouldn't worry a bit about lying
Looks like they use the same concept of "creating reality with narrative" that was used during coronahoax. Russian MSM lies too, but it is old-style mix of truth, lie and failure to mention.
none of it would make it to Western media.
That is not how that things works. As far as I understand, the goal was not some MSM campaign, but papers. It's like all that ICAO things about planes. Somwhere deep in the belly of that IAEA agency will be a paper track of all that stuff. May be it will be never published, but it will create a lot of problems for the participants of that unauthorized tests for further authorization and all that bureaucratic stuff.
Last I heard, at least 3000 have been killed in the attempt which means probably 10K other casualties, along with numerous pieces of equipment including aircraft.
It is overestimation. AFAIK in the latest attempts Ukrainian military lost ~300 people near ZNPP.
So what's so important about the ZNPP? IDK, but my guess is that they hid the materials for nuclear weapons there, or perhaps finished products
ZNPP is under Russian control since the very beginning. If there was something about nuclear weapons, Russian propaganda definitely would have been used it already. There initially was rumors about some enriched weapon-grade uranium, but it was never confirmed officially. So, either there are no nuclear weapon stuff, or Russian state is in one game with West. Latter have no confirmations, info or leaks from locals.
Russia has been systematically grinding the Ukie army under it's boot heel and will continue to do so absent a big change in the dynamic.
Really, things are not so easy, but yes, there is some kind of slow grinding of Ukrainian military and weapons with insane casualities ratio. Either West have stupidiest strategists, or it is done intentionally to kill as much Ukrainians as possible.
IDK, if that war is to force Great Reset in Europe, then why they need that insane grinding? Slow war with little casualities would have been enough to create necessary fearmongering and reasons in MSM.
Stainless steel could be easily cut with regular angle grinder with disk for stainless steel (most disks today stainless steel capable). Welding is same as regular steel, just use apropriate welding rods, or stainless steel wire for MIG. You could use regular CO2 for MIG welding if you have no argomix or argon. Seam will be slightly weaker, but more than enough for stove. Stainless steel is very nice material to work with. Just remember that stainless steel hardens with slow cooling and softens with fast cooling, opposite to regular steel. So, drill, mill and turn with low RPM, otherwise it will be hardened and you will dull your tool.
Brick option is good, but you need stove bricks and figure out what clay/cement to use. I tested different mixtures gluing two bricks and trowing them to the fire and then to the water. Then tried to break the assembly and choose best one.
DIY. Find a big 1/2 barrel (50L) beer keg. Used one. I think it will be less than $100 or even free. That kegs made from good thick austenite food grade stainless steel. Cut it as you need, add a legs and you will have eternal BBQ.
Also, you could use a drum from washing machine, but they made from thinner stainless steel.
Stainless steel looks like some banned material for making goods (especially cars, but it is separate story). Yes, it is more expensive, but it is not a problem if you want a really reliable outdoor thing.
but again, lots of expensive exotic materials to mitigate issues.. to boil water.
Yes, that always made me smile when instead of developing and using more effective ways to convert nuclear power into electricity they just boil water to spin turbines. And even for the future thermonuclear power plants they plan to use the same scheme.
It is perfectly OK to use old tech if it is reliable and do not need much maintenance, but that is not the case with boiling water in huge amounts with high pressures and temperatures.
IDK, may be it is mostly because there alrady exists well-established industry of making steam turbines with generators along with maintenance business so nobody want to bother with more advanced things that could lower profits of that huge industry.
The unseen waste is all the shit the fuel comes in contact with
Really, materials for things that comes in contact with fuel and radiation selected to be resistant to it. Not all elements produce radioactive isotopes being exposed to radiation. Also, many elements produce isotopes with very short half-life. It was a problem for the first power plants, but now it is not a big problem.
Decommissioning the plant is a quagmire, and it's often exotic material.
Yes, it could be even more complex and expensive than building that plant.
Maintenance sucks too for that reason.
So-so. Maintenance, unlike decomissioning, is well-known and routine thing. There is universities who teach it, proper documentation, experienced techicians and so on. With decomissioning it is every time unknown land.
It's just soooooo fucking expensive and takes forever to build.
Yes. To be efficient you need to squeeze maximum energy from minimum fuel. It is expensive. It's like modern car engines. They cost much more than old ones for the sake of 5% more efficiency.
And creates like infinite waste..
Waste from nuclear power plants could be easily used to make RITEGs, each could provide a family with heat and electricity for century. You take a small piece of that waste, and pack into very thick lead and stainless steel onion shell. No any radiation, only heat you could use directly or convert to electricity using TEG elements. Free energy for century. But it doesn't fit into modern narrative.
And CO2 can be mitigated
It should not. We have to return all that carbon into Earth atmosphere to allow Earth become green again. :)
Nuclear stuff always sounds scandalous, important...
Really it isn't. It is stupid politicians make it scandalous and important. Just like space or aircrafts.
If Ukrainians bought shitty aftermarket ones from the US, jokes on them.
They can't use them in live station not only because politicians making it scandalous and important also created a lot of international authorities that have to authorize such thing, but also because it is just dangerous to use different fuel in the system that is designed for another fuel.
But it sucks balls. Nuclear energy is a really shitty and expensive way to generate power.
Nuclear energy is not expensive or shitty. Currently used way of converting it to electricity is expensive and shitty.
Did you ever heard about any accident with RITEGs? No. They can't blow, melt, they don't need maintenance, they even don't have any moving parts. They are cheap and reliable. But they can't be scaled. They are devices for personal use. So, useless for those who control everything nuclear.
It's just a mechanism for corruption.
Of course. And big one, since it declared scandalous, important, dangerous and so on.
Like the Russians did in Chernobyl!?
Exactly. Seriously. Chernobyl disaster was a consequence of transferring station from Ministry of Middleweight Industry (really it was Ministry of Nuclear Industry, but soviets like to make a mess with naming) to the Ministry of Energy. New bureaucrats wanted more output to show that they will achieve better results than previous owner and new chiefs order to do some experimentations. So it blown.
I'm all for the continued extinction of Nuclear power.
Problem is not in Nuclear power. Problem as always in greedy dumbfucks that want a lot for least possible money. You could easily build absolutely reliable and safe nuclear power source, but it will not be as effective in terms of money as usual ones.
Counterfeit rods at ZNPP are made using US parts in Sweden. The real source of fuel itself is unknown to me.
Really, it does not matter where you make that things, more important is how you prepare fuel in them. You have to make it exactly the same as fuel in original rods.
It's like with all that biodiesels and other stuff. It does not matter who and where make it, if it have parameters suitable for engine. Otherwise you are in trouble and could seriously damage an engine. It looks not very dangerous for diesel, but nuclear reactor is not the thing to experiment with.
The problem is not in counterfeiting, the problem is in doing dangerous experiments on live station in populated area.
AFAIK, they went bankrupt when their counterfeit rods in some Finnish power station began to behave weird and Finns kick them out. All their business of conterfeitng Russian rods was broken and only Ukraine continue to collaborate.
Asked classmate, newest counterfeit rods was made in Sweden around 2021 mostly from US parts. He didn't see any papers, so didn't know how that company named now.
AFAIK even in 2016 they have huge problems after initial attempts to counterfeit rods failed miserably. May be that is why they so desperately tried to counterfeit Russian rods and begin to sell them to Finland and other European countries ignoring any safety and all that stuff on Zaporozhye NPP. I don't know who bought that fuel assembly business now and how it named currently, but locals tell about "Westinghouse".
Even that D-heads want to get the fuck out of our clown world. :)
Everything that gained by technology developments is seized by taxes and fiat value games by those who don't have anything common with that developments. To not allow people to use the gifts of tech for rising living level or gaining more free time.
When you have multiple power plants and loads connected to single grid you have to balance total power production and consumption. If you are out of balance, f.e. plants produce more power than consumed you are in great trouble with barely predictable outcome. Also, large changes in load could destabilise grid too. So you need some centralised entity to watch after that balance and command plants to increase or decrease production. That entity named "grid operator". It's like air traffic control for electricity.
If a grid have bad balance, f.e. it's only citizens and power plants, then you have problems every evening and night, when all citizens turn on light at evening and turn off it going to sleep. You need to nearly stop power plants at night and run them in full power at evening. You could eaily fall to that thing even without any consumtion grow, f.e. if factories who are constant load are bankrupted or moved out from your area you stay with population who consume electricity in very ragged way.
Times when BabylonBee (or, f.e. Russian ИА "Панорама") news articles looks much more real and believable than any of MSM. :)
How about US nearly total dependence on Russian and China titanium, nickel, vanadium, rare earth metals and other highly critical and even strategic stuff? Did any US leader insisted on getting rid of that dependence?
From the other side, who pushed Germany to cancelling NordStream2 (meanwhile, it does not use any critical western parts, it's runs on russian made turbines) and all that stupid sanctions and green garbage? Wasn't that same US?
It's just another obvious elites hypocrisy.
Every business will prefer most profitable option for sellers to buy from and buyers to sell to. If state began to interfere with business decisions, then things could go very wrong, up to complete destruction of whole industries.
From the third side, AFAIK, there is laws in some of US states that directly prohibit boycotting of Israel. :)
Obviously, business prefer to trade with orcs more than with elves in little hats, so the state even have to forcefully prohibit trade with orcs, and punish business for not trading with elves.
Freedom of trade in Clown World in all its glory.
In Russia there is long living sarcastic meme like "Shure, it is Obama pissing in our side street" or "of course, it is Biden coming every night and throw the garbage past the rubbish bin", when talking about some unpleasant sides of Russian reality. Fascinating to see same things in MSM stated without any shred of sarcasm. :)
You must have extremely limited exposure to emailing with other people.
Sometimes dozens of emails a day. I also run few email servers for others, and there are no any problems.
Why even a tiny proposal about dropping that @gmail.com, whatsapp, facebook or other corporate shit drop people to the mental coma? Is it so hard to understand that all that crap have no any advantages over independent services at all, only bullshit marketing and useless bells and whistles?
I never had any BigBrother accounts anywhere and have no any problems with communications with people around the world.
Sometimes I even deny to communicate with a peer if he has BigBrother email address, if it is about sending passwords, private keys or confidential business papers, otherwise all that critical stuff will be 100% parsed, identified and stored on BigBrother servers and could be used any time against you.
Even that forum - why the fuck anybody will choose some reddit to talk about conspiracies? Or any other thing - you don't need any of BigBrother services at all. And nobody need, really. It's them who need you, not vice versa. And even if you bought their bullshit, it is never late to opt out. If you are a not a mother basement nothingburger, then there will be no any problems not only to send BigBrother to the voyage to fuck out destination, but even also force some of your less intelligent peers who need you more than you need them to do the same thing.
Airplane affordability was hugely destroyed by FAA regulations and other authority stuff. Today you can't repair airplane without buying bolts (literally) for $200 and certified mechanic with insane $/hour rate to keep the papers satisfying FAA. You can scrap another airplane with decent papers for parts to do it, but it is not a cheap option too.
When maintenance cost more than fuel and takes a lot of time, mostly for paperwork, many will abandon airplane in barn.